European Quotes

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

The euro area must not be treated as an "opt out" from the European Union.

I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.

Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.

The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)

The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.

The entire European Union is a left-wing dream

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

Angela Merkel wants to impose her policies on others. This will lead to an explosion of the European Union.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.

The "European Union" happens to be composed of people who hate our guts. It is the continent where Moveon.org-style lunatics are the friendly, pro-American types and the rest are crazy Muslims.

Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and tedious process.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

Trump's election has opened many people's eyes in Europe to how valuable the European Union and international cooperation are.

There's a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.

If you want to go to Spain or you want to go to France or you want go to [any] southern European countries, [Lisbon] is a great place to [connect].

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

The good thing about the European Union is that the joint project ultimately benefits all Member States and not just a few.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.

The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom.

Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.